Chinese State Councilor and Foreign Minister Wang Yi on Tuesday said thatChina was ready to build partnerships with the Islamic world for thepromotion of a multipolar world and democracy in international relations aswell as for unity and cooperation.
“China is ready to build four partnerships with Islamic countries. Weshould be partners of unity and cooperation… We need to be partners indevelopment and revitalization… We need to be safe and stable partners,”Wang Yi said in his address as a special guest at the opening ceremony ofthe 48th session of the Organization of Islamic Cooperation’s Council ofForeign Ministers here.
This is the first time for the Chinese foreign minister to attend the OICForeign Ministers’ Meeting, which he said, fully demonstrated the sinceredesire of China and the Islamic world to strengthen exchanges andcooperation and would surely push bilateral relations to a new level.
He said China was ready to work with Islamic countries to promote amultipolar world, democracy in international relations and diversity ofhuman civilizations, and make unremitting efforts to build a community witha shared future for mankind.
Wang Yi said China would continue to support Islamic countries in applyingIslamic wisdom to solve contemporary hotspot issues and firmly hold in ourown hands the key to maintaining stability and promoting peace.
He told the gathering of foreign ministers from across the Muslim worldthat China would continue to stand firmly on the side of the Palestinianpeople and support the early convening of a more authoritative andrepresentative international peace conference on the basis of the two-statesolution to promote a comprehensive and just settlement of the issue.
He said China would respect the choice made by the Afghan people, supportAfghanistan in achieving inclusive government and steady governance.
“On the Kashmir issue, we have once again heard the call of many Islamicfriends. China shares the same aspiration,” he remarked.
Moreover, he said China supported Russia and Ukraine in continuing peacetalks for the sake of a ceasefire, an end to war, and peace.
“We need to prevent humanitarian disasters and prevent the spillover of theUkrainian crisis from affecting or harming the legitimate rights andinterests of other regions and countries,” the Chinese foreign ministerremarked.
He said China would continue to provide 300 million doses of vaccines toIslamic countries to help them build a defense of health. With high-qualitybelt and road cooperation and joint implementation of global developmentinitiatives as the twin engines, China would lead the trend of South-Southcooperation.
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He said over the years, China and the Muslim world had always respected andtrusted each other and supported each other’s core concerns.
“We will never forget that Algeria and other countries jointly submitted aresolution, and nearly 30 Islamic countries firmly supported it, to helpChina restore its legal status in the UN. Similarly, China has neverhesitated or been absent in its support for the Palestinian issue, which isof the greatest concern to the Islamic world,” Wang Yi commented.
He said after the Covid outbreak, Islamic countries immediately offeredChina valuable support, and China also provided 1.3 billion doses ofvaccines and a large amount of anti-epidemic supplies to 50 Islamiccountries in a timely manner.
To date, China has signed cooperation documents with 54 Islamic countriesand carried out nearly 600 major projects involving 400 billion US dollars,bringing tangible benefits to the two peoples, he added.
The Chinese foreign minister said both the Chinese civilization and theIslamic civilization had made great contributions to human civilization inhistory.
“They have been treated unfairly in modern times. Now they are joininghands on the road of development and rejuvenation. We should vigorouslyadvocate equal-footing dialogue, exchanges and mutual learning amongcivilizations, draw wisdom from each other’s time-honored civilizations,and jointly resist discrimination and clash of civilizations.”
He said the theme of the moot reflected the common aspiration of mostcountries in the world.
He suggested upholding exchanges and mutual learning among civilizations,oppose the theory of “the superiority of civilizations”, the theory of“clash of civilizations”, and the distortion and smear of non-Westerncivilizations.
He also called for deepening preventive counter-terrorism andderadicalization cooperation, rejecting “double standards” incounter-terrorism, and opposing the linking terrorism with any particularethnic group or religion.